The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-03-09
SOME ODD OCCUPATIONS.
QUEER WAYS OF MAKING A LIv-
ING IN NEW DIRK.

IN heIuSe-Ba1nt1nS BLACK Eyes.
New York, writes Julian Ralph in the
Mail and Express, has not attained the
unique distinction recently boasted by
Paris of maintaining beggar factory for
manning little children so as to render
them objects of pity. Neither has it
yet reached up to London in the posses
sion of necessary stores, " wherein every
earthly thing in use by man is kept on
sale. But, after all, New York is big
enough to supply many ingenious per-
sons with very curious occupations. The
scheme of our ''clean towel company"
newly started for supplying business
Offices with clean towels and soap, we
ought not to boast of, since we borrowed
the notion from Chicago. We are
alone, however, in patiently permitting
an audacous Teuton, near Chatham
Square, to keep hand organs in mischief
by repairing them. He assumes to re-
plenish them with new tunes, but, of
was ever heard to play any but bald
headed and middle-aged music. New
York maintains, also, at least one estab
lishment for fitting little children for the
stage and ballet. The accomplished
woman in charged of this used, whether
she still does or not, to certify to the
beauty of the understanding, so to
speak, of females who applied for
chance to exhibit themselves in theatres
where spectacular pieces were to be pre-
sented
Two courageous New Workers follow
the useful but unpoetic business of hang
ing their fellow citizens They are not
prejudlced in favor of New Workers,
but are easily persuaded to hang men
elsewhere throughout the Union. 1t is
always pretended that no one knows
their names and that only the Sheriff of
this county has their addresses. One is
a Hebrew, dubbed "Isaacs," and the
other is a German, called "Menzeshei-
mer'; but the city always Jumps them
both under the one name of Joseph b.
Atkinson, and under that name they
draw their pay. They rig the gallows
and finally cut the rope. One other
sanguinary citizen, in Twenty third
street, swings shingle declaring him to
be "The Destroyer of Moths"
Four prosperous citizens earn their
livelihood as doctors for the lap-dogs of
rich women. AS rule, the only medi-
cine they use is starvation. They fling
the dear pets into barred boxes and de-
prive them of food for four days, having
found out that the usual trouble with
pet dogs is that they are fed extrava-
gantly and improperly. Just east of tie
Bowery, in a tenement house, resides q
man whose business it is to rent himself
and his Punch and Judy show to chill
drens parties in the brownstone wards
A person on the Bowery keeps six ol
eight girls busy framing wreaths anC
pictur of tombstones, whereon are set
forth the virtues of deceased New
Workers. He follows where the deatl
notices in the papers lead him, and
works upon the feelings of the grief
stricken families.
A rich Italian employs horde of hi'
countrymen to trim or balance the loads
upon the scows of our street sweeping
department. These trimmers save fol-
him all the rags, fat, bone, metal and
other controvertible refuse flung into the
householders' ash barrels. Another man
is making a fortune by carrying off all
the waste and refuse the city will not re,
move, such as builders leavings, dirt
from cellar digging, and so on. The
sells it in the suburbs for filling in sunken
lands.
Only one man in town pretends to keep
photographs of all the notable persons in
the world. There Is not room for two IN
the business Another citizen sells to
public men and corporations clippings
from all the newspapers that mention
them, at five cents clipping, added to
a subscription fee each year. Yet an
other citizen huuts up coats of arms and
pedigrees for all who think theirs have
been overlooked, or that they may get
them from families of the same, or near
ly the same, names as their own. This
is quite English, and therefore popular.
1t is said that the carriage makers are
giving away coats of arms like chromos.
Lawyer Ed. Price, the ex-pugilist, has q
monopoly as the attorney for the Chinese.
The laundrymen all seek him when in
trouble, and always pay him in silver
dollars. The trade in painting black
eyes with a mixture of six parts white
paint and one part red now boasts sew
eral establishments. 1t is not populariz-
ing the black eve, because it only covers
up the scandal without removing the
recollection of the accompanying click
ing"
One New Yorker has posted himself
about all the unclaimed estates in
Christendom, and thus profits by weak
ness more general than most folks i'm
agine. Another New Yorker searches
the streets at night with lantern for
coins AMI purses dropped during the
evening. A woman near the City Hall
takes care of the babies whose widowed
mothers have TO 90 out to work, and
who check them, like umbrellas, in the
morning, and call for them in the even
ing. Many " men in the East-side tene-
ments take care Of baby or two for
their neighbors, but this down town one
is, l think, the only regular safe deposit
company or storage warehouse in town.
There is no matrimonial agency or hus-
bands exchange newspaper here lust
now. There have heen many, but all
have failed. That heme is not so
profitable as that of man | met the
other day, who told me he trained valu-
able dogs to come straight back to him
as often as he sold them.